Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes

As the effects of global warming become more and more difficult to ignore, will we react by finally fashioning a global response? Or will we retreat into ever narrower and more destructive forms of self-interest? It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing.

Elizabeth Kolbert

• Imagine
• Destroy
• Response
• Global Warming
• Self-Interest

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• It's not diversity that is going to destroy us, but fear of diversity.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Fear
  • Diversity
  • Destroy

• The big bulk of the response to antidepressants is the placebo response.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Response
  • Big
  • Bulk

• I can't imagine working without and audience.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Working
  • Imagine
  • Without

• When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Imagine
  • Loved
  • Kid

• Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.

  

  Larry Brilliant
  • Something
  • Global Warming

• If you're asking me in a general context whether I'm for or against the burkini, the response is simple: I oppose the burkini.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Me
  • Response
  • Against

• They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Society
  • Way
  • Destroy

• Between Twitter and Facebook, early word of mouth for a film can destroy it immediately or take something you've never heard of and make it a huge hit.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Never
  • Destroy
  • Early

• Cheer up: You're a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you're more loved than you ever dared hope.

  

  Jack Miller
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Imagine

• In uncertain times you should not just give a knee-jerk response.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Times
  • Response
  • Knee-jerk

• The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Men
  • Destroy
  • Creator

• I didn't die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn't survive certain things... people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst... for many reasons, I shouldn't be here.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Die
  • Reason

• The best time to practice mental rehearsal is at night in bed, just before you fall asleep. The last thing you do before you doze off is to imagine yourself performing at your best the following day. You will be amazed at how often the upcoming event or experience happens exactly as you imagined it.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Night

• The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Job
  • Best
  • Enjoy

• Generally speaking, there's a difference. Moose nose is just pure cartilage. It's not just the end of a chicken leg, it really is - imagine the cartilage of game meat.If I ever took the spare tire off of my car and was on a survival show, and Bear Grylls was like, "What you need to do in a survival situation is eat your tire," I'd be like, "That's moose nose!"

  

  Adam Richman
  • Game
  • Car
  • Imagine

• It is in your nature to destroy yourselves.

  

  Edward Furlong
  • Nature
  • Destroy

• I've never been to a Hollywood party, although I imagine that it might be fun.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Fun
  • Party
  • Imagine

• Hope lies in having more faith in the power of God to heal us than in the power of anything to hurt or destroy us. In realizing that as children of God we are bigger than our problems, we have the power at last to confront them.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • God
  • Children
  • Power

• As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the "sacredness of human life." We were revolutionaries in opposition, and have remained revolutionaries in power. To make the individual sacred we must destroy the social order which crucifies him. And this problem can only be solved by blood and iron.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Destroy
  • Opposition
  • Vegetarian

• It is pretty cool to have my own video game. As a kid, growing up, it was something I never even thought of. I thought about just trying to get the new game that was coming out, so that my buddies and I, we could all enjoy it together. When I was a kid, never once in my wildest dream - even when I turned pro- that was never something that I really thought about, having my own video game. Thanks to EA, it's a reality.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Dream
  • Kid
  • Videogame

• I'm not really used to that, but I can't control weather. You have to work through it, and do the best you can. I'm sure it's a lot cooler in the summer, but what can I do? I just dealt with it.

  

  Cole Hamels
  • Work
  • Control
  • Weather

• Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Star
  • Become
  • Debt

• As the effects of global warming become more and more difficult to ignore, will we react by finally fashioning a global response? Or will we retreat into ever narrower and more destructive forms of self-interest? It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Imagine
  • Destroy
  • Response